[R] Loading packages at startup

[Simon Fear]

See Introduction to R section 10.8 and Appendix B.2.

I searched for `.First` to find it, but then, I knew what
to look for ... searching for `startup` would find it too.

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> Hi,
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> I use the Windows R GUI.  I frequently use (or have my 
> students use) foreign and survival packages.  I would like to 
> make them part of the basic start-up package set (like base, 
> ctest, etc.) using something short of recompiling a special 
> Windows version of R.  Is this possible?  I examined the 
> autoload() command but this seems to target a single command 
> of package, and only apply during a single run of R.  Is 
> there an initiation text file I could modify?  I can find no 
> mention in the documentation of how this might be done.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
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